Thoughts, ramblings and musings!

Yesterday, I was a remote participant in the Future Summit held in Melbourne on 18th & 19th May 2009. I participated through Twitter, by interacting with attendees at the event, responding to questions & posting comments to various twitterers attending the various sessions on the program. To me, it felt like I recieved a condensed, [...]

What we’re currently experiencing is not a recession (or a depression). Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) recently (Stanford UniversityMay 2009) said “…what we have been suffering through is no normal recession, but rather a reset to a lower level, a kind of severe rejiggering of the economy that has happened just four times in the past [...]

When I made the decision to get my motorcycle licence, one of my decision points was to become a better car driver. I strongly believed it at the time, and in the 6 years since I got my motorcycle licence, I wholeheartedly believe I am a better car driver for it. So, putting this thought [...]

Here are some of my thoughts on how to make Australia a great nation, starting with some job roles. Show how much we really appreciate some of society’s more important professions: Nurses. Nurses cop it every which way and are the front-line for an ailing health system. They’re over-worked, under-appreciated (in every way) and are [...]

One of my biggest gripes is waiting for content to load on a website. To make matters worse, a lot of the time the status message in my browser says “waiting for xxx.yyy.com”, the links to ads/stats sites are slowing down your own content! I realise that online ads are one way to get a [...]